Authorizes the town of Yorktown, Westchester county, shall have the ability to install and operate photo speed violation monitoring systems within construction or maintenance work areas that fall within the border or jurisdiction of such municipality; makes related provisions.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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6519
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
March 5, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SLATER -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to owner
liability for failure of operator to comply with certain posted maxi-
mum speed limits in the town of Yorktown, Westchester county; and to
amend the general municipal law, in relation to making technical
corrections
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Jake's Law".
§ 2. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 1180-e of the vehicle
and traffic law, as added by chapter 421 of the laws of 2021, is amended
to read as follows:
1. (A) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commissioner of
transportation is hereby authorized to establish a demonstration program
imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an
operator thereof to comply with posted maximum speed limits in a highway
construction or maintenance work area located on a controlled-access
highway (i) when highway construction or maintenance work is occurring
and a work area speed limit is in effect as provided in paragraph two of
subdivision (d) or subdivision (f) of section eleven hundred eighty of
this article or (ii) when highway construction or maintenance work is
occurring and other speed limits are in effect as provided in subdivi-
sion (b) or (g) or paragraph one of subdivision (d) of section eleven
hundred eighty of this article. Such demonstration program shall empower
the commissioner to install photo speed violation monitoring systems
within no more than twenty highway construction or maintenance work
areas located on controlled-access highways and to operate such systems
within such work areas (iii) when highway construction or maintenance
work is occurring and a work area speed limit is in effect as provided
in paragraph two of subdivision (d) or subdivision (f) of section eleven
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06452-01-5
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